Saturday, January 3, 2015. Chaos and violence continue, 3 Sunni clerics
are assassinated and the White House is silent, 3 Sunni children are
part of 20 civilians killed in Falluja and the White House is silent,
Barack wants US troops to train the League of Righteous and America is
silent, and much more.

Nickolay Mladenov has declared,
"The Iraqi ordinary citizen continues to suffer from violence and
terrorism. 2014 has seen the highest number of causalities since the
violence in 2006 - 2007."

Nickolay Mladenov is United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's
special envoy to Iraq. The United Nations Assistance Mission for Iraq
counts at least 12,282 deaths and 23,126 people left injured. This
doesn't include Anbar which means the numbers are significantly higher
since Anbar is the scene of much violence.

Not including Anbar not only reduces the number of dead and wounded, it also allows people to pose and pretend.

'Oh, that awful Islamic State! Killing innocent civilians!'

You mean like the Iraqi government does?

Alsumaria reports 20 civilians were killed in Falluja yesterday -- including 3 children -- and another twenty left injured.

Who killed and wounded those people?

The Iraqi military.

They've been bombing residential neighborhoods in Falluja since January. It's a War Crime.

Nickolay Mladenov has made one statement opposing it -- it's now a year
that it's been going on, that the Iraqi government has been killing
Iraqi civilians.

And Nickolay thinks one statement takes care of it?

Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has never said one word.

Not one word.

Does he really think he represent the best of the world's aspirations by staying silent about a government killing civilians?

1900.

That's not the century.

That's the number of civilian corpses Falluja General Hospital has received since the fall of victims of these attacks.

1900 is the number the western press won't tell you.

1900 is the number of innocents whose lives didn't matter to the Iraqi
government and whose deaths clearly do not matter to the world press, to
the White House or to the United Nations.

At what point does the world insist that the Iraqi government stop killing Iraqi civilians?

If you're wondering that's why the UN doesn't include Anbar in their
death tolls -- they don't want to confront the reality that people are
being killed -- so many are being killed -- by the Iraqi government.

It's not because they can't 'verify' the deaths. They can verify deaths
in Anbar as easily as they can anywhere else in Iraq -- in fact, they
can verify them in Anbar a great deal easier than they can in Nineveh
Province (especially Mosul).

They chose not to include Anbar and have done so because they don't want to 'embarrass' the Iraqi government.

Never forget that: The UN which proclaims "it's your world" bends over
backwards to avoid documenting the deaths in Anbar because they don't
want to 'embarrass' the Iraqi government.

Three religious leaders are assassinated and two more are injured and
the White House is silent -- Joe Biden's Twitter feed had time yesterday
for Brazil, the State Dept had time for North Korea, the State Dept's
Brett McGurk had time to trumpet bombings and other non-State Dept
issues -- everyone's silent.

They'll issue a statement on the Shi'ites at the drop of hat.

But the Sunni community -- and it's noticed in Iraq -- can be attacked,
can be savaged and the from the White House on down, the administration
just doesn't give a damn.

And that's clear by the White House's refusal to call out the bombing of
residential neighborhoods in Iraq. These are legally defined War
Crimes -- recognized as such by the US government. And it is incumbent
upon the White House to call them out.

These War Crimes? They also legally mean the White House cannot arm the
Iraqi government -- not when it's killing Iraqi civilians. And this
isn't in doubt, it's been going on since January of 2014. It is
documented, it is established.

Again, the White House silence is noted by Sunnis in Iraq.

Of the assassination, AFP notes
that "the Iraqi Islamic Party, one of the main Sunni political parties,
said
the attack was carried out by 'criminal militias,' an apparent reference
to Shiite fighters Baghdad has turned to for support in its battle
against IS." And, of course, these Shi'ite militias forces would have
been part of Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's tour of Basra on December
31st and clearly could have stayed the next day to take part in the
assassinations. The Iraqi military that the US wants to train first
needs to be purged of all criminal militia elements -- including those
who, of course, kidnapped and killed US troops -- for those who missed
it, Barack Obama released some of those in 2009 as a deal to get the
League of Righteous to release the 1 living British hostage and the
corpses of the other British hostages -- but remember, Barack insists
that he doesn't make deals with terrorists. The League of Righteous
has been very clear that a deal was made -- very clear to the Iraqi press.

We're going to do a lengthy sidebar right now on the League, National Iraqi News Agency reports the League's Qais al-Khazail declared Tuesday that the United States and Israel were conspiring to destroy Iraq.

And that's who Barack's sending US troops to train.

The League is also known as Assaib al-Haq. Tim Arango (New York Times) reported
in September of 2013 that thug Nouri al-Malliki, then the prime
minister of Iraq, had brought the Shi'ite militias under his wing --
providing them with military uniforms and weapons:

In supporting Asaib al-Haq, Mr. Maliki has apparently made the risky
calculation that by backing some Shiite militias, even in secret, he can
maintain control over the country’s restive Shiite population and,
ultimately, retain power after the next national elections, which are
scheduled for next year. Militiamen and residents of Shiite areas say
members of Asaib al-Haq are given government badges and weapons and
allowed freedom of movement by the security forces.

Again, this is the military that Barack wants US troops to train. Grasp that.

If you're not getting how disgusting this is, let's drop back to the June 9th snapshot:

This morning the New York Times' Alissa J. Rubin and Michael Gordon offered "U.S. Frees Suspect in Killing of 5 G.I.'s." Martin Chulov (Guardian) covered the same story, Kim Gamel (AP) reported on it, BBC offered "Kidnap hope after Shia's handover" and Deborah Haynes contributed "Hope for British hostages in Iraq after release of Shia militant" (Times
of London). The basics of the story are this. 5 British citizens have
been hostages since May 29, 2007. The US military had in their custody
Laith al-Khazali. He is a member of Asa'ib al-Haq. He is also accused
of murdering five US troops. The US military released him and allegedly
did so because his organization was not going to release any of the
five British hostages until he was released. This is a big story and
the US military is attempting to state this is just diplomacy, has
nothing to do with the British hostages and, besides, they just released
him to Iraq. Sami al-askari told the New York Times, "This is a very
sensitive topic because you know the position that the Iraqi
government, the U.S. and British governments, and all the governments
do not accept the idea of exchanging hostages for prisoners. So we put
it in another format, and we told them that if they want to participate
in the political process they cannot do so while they are holding
hostages. And we mentioned to the American side that they cannot join
the political process and release their hostages while their leaders are
behind bars or imprisoned." In other words, a prisoner was traded for
hostages and they attempted to not only make the trade but to lie to
people about it. At the US State Dept, the tired and bored reporters
were unable to even broach the subject. Poor declawed tabbies. Pentagon
reporters did press the issue and got the standard line from the
department's spokesperson, Bryan Whitman, that the US handed the
prisoner to Iraq, the US didn't hand him over to any organization --
terrorist or otherwise. What Iraq did, Whitman wanted the press to know,
was what Iraq did. A complete lie that really insults the intelligence
of the American people. CNN reminds the five US soldiers killed "were:
Capt. Brian S. Freeman, 31, of Temecula, California; 1st Lt. Jacob N.
Fritz, 25, of Verdon, Nebraska; Spc. Johnathan B. Chism, 22, of
Gonzales, Louisiana; Pfc. Shawn P. Falter, 25, of Cortland, New York;
and Pfc. Johnathon M. Millican, 20, of Trafford, Alabama." Those are
the five from January 2007 that al-Khazali and his brother Qais
al-Khazali are supposed to be responsible for the deaths of. Qassim Abdul-Zahra and Robert H. Reid (AP) states
that Jonathan B. Chism's father Danny Chism is outraged over the
release and has declared, "They freed them? The American military did?
Somebody needs to answer for it."

No one ever did. Barack was never held accountable for it.

But grasp that US troops are being expected to advise and train those
who targeted and killed them but those who are running around Iraq
telling the press that the US is conspiring with Israel to destroy Iraq.

Let's go back to the assassination of the 3 clerics. Alsumaria notes
that Speaker of Parliament Salim al-Jubouri has called Friday for a
serious investigation, for accountability and for prosecution over these
assassinations (two more clerics were left injured in the attack).
And, no surprise, he's not satisfied with leaving the investigation to
the Ministry of the Interior and wants Parliament to form an
investigative committee as well.

With the Iraqi military failing in Mosul so spectacularly last year, Parliament is investigating what went wrong. National Iraqi News Agency notes
that Moqtada al-Sadr's bloc has stated they are prepared to call Nouri
al-Maliki to testify in Parliament if the investigation warrants it.
Nouri is now one of Iraq's three vice presidents. At the time of the
fall of Mosul, he was the prime minister of Iraq. More recently, Nouri
attempted to publicly pin the blame for his failures as
commander-in-chief with the fall of Mosul on the Kurds.